Laos

    Firm will grow rice in Africa
    Chongqing Seed Corp has decided to cultivate rice on 300 hectares in Tanzania from 2009
    • China Daily
    • 09 May 2008
    China farms the world to feed a ravenous economy
    As Beijing scrambles to feed its galloping economy, it has already scoured the world for mining and logging concessions. Now it is turning to crops to feed its people and industries. Chinese enterprises are snapping up vast tracts of land abroad and forging contract farming deals.
    • The Associated Press
    • 04 May 2008
    Wikileaks: The great land grab
    "Economic development is spurring a land grab in broad areas of the country, and the poorest Lao are paying the price," reports the US Embassy in Vientiane
    • Wikileaks
    • 30 June 2006

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